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24 May 2007
Issue: 7274 / Categories: Legal News
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LITVINENKO MURDER

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A former KGB officer is to be charged with the murder by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said this week.

It is alleged that in London on or about 1 November 2006, Andrei Lugovoy poisoned Litvinenko by administering a lethal dose of polonium-210, a radioactive material. Litvinenko died on 23 November 2006 in a London hospital of an acute radiation injury. In a statement this week, the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, says: “The CPS will now take immediate steps to seek the extradition of Mr Lugovoy from Russia to the UK so that he can be charged and prosecuted for murder in this country.”

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